Macedonia:
Bosnia III, Kosovo II in the Making; Macedonia Section of the “Green
Interstate” under Construction

By Bob Djurdjevic

PHOENIX, Aug. 10 - On Monday, government troops
kill five Albanian guerrillas while “peace negotiations” continued
at a lake resort on the Macedonian-Greek border.On Tuesday, Albanian terrorists ambush and kill 10 government
soldiers in the worst single act of violence since the conflict began in
February of this year.On
Wednesday, the Lake Ohrid “peace negotiators” emerge to announce a
“breakthrough deal.”

Sane people laugh.The rest applaud.

“Let's give peace another chance," said
Macedonia’s defense minister, Vlado Buckovski, considered a moderate,
a euphemism for a Washington stooge.He spoke at a news conference Aug. 9 about the killing of the 10
Macedonian soldiers.

A Hollywood farce?No.Just a few
farcical scenes from America’s farcical oil war in Macedonia.

If it weren’t so tragic, the war that has claimed over
100 lives in the last six months would be downright boring.Were it a film, it could be titled “Bosnia III,” or “Kosovo
II,” just well as “Macedonia.”It’s a “been there, done that”-production using the same
scenario as that in Bosnia (1993-1995) and Kosovo (1998-1999).Only actors and scenery are different.

The plot goes like this… American government, acting
on behalf of the Princes of the 20th Century - the New World
Order’s real masters, multinational corporations - incites a regional
conflict where none had existed before.It does it by training and arming ethnic (Islamic) terrorists.Or by using some of our “allies” to its bidding (such as
Iran, in the case of Bosnian Muslims; or Germany, in the case of Kosovo
Albanians).

The NWO lapdog media echo the State Department
pronunciations.Soon
enough, western public are told that the Washington-trained and funded
terrorists are “[insert name here] Liberation Army,” or “ethnic
insurgents.”They are
supposedly fighting for “independence” or greater “minority
rights.”

When the local government responds militarily to
gruesome acts of violence by the western-trained thugs, such
authorities, not the terrorists, are portrayed by the western media as
“rogue” governments.

The intent is, of course, to play on emotions of tens of
millions of legal or illegal immigrants in the United States, Western
Europe and Australia.After
all, these newcomers, many with “green cards” if not citizenship
papers in their pockets, know better than most stupefied native citizens
about government abuses (some also sponsored by Washington, such as in
Indonesia, El Salvador or Chile, for example).

Both citizen groups, however, are equally gullible, and
thus easily duped, by the NWO media.Which is why the greatest violations of sovereignty and human
rights since the Soviet or Hitler’s invasions of neighboring countries
have been carried out by the NWO forces in the last 10 years without as
much as a whimper from the Coke- and McDonald’s-infatuated western
masses.

The ultimate goal of the Balkans clashes has been to
send in the American and other international troops as
“peacekeepers.”Their presence claims another piece of the geopolitically
strategic ground for NATO, at Russia’s expense.And it provides security for a future pipeline from the Black
Sea to the Adriatic (see the map).

As a result, NATO has now occupied virtually all of the
former Yugoslavia, once a buffer zone between the West and the (Soviet)
East.Since the quisling
Bulgarian and Romanian governments are pleading to be admitted to NATO,
this Cold War relic, a military alliance created to defend the West
against the now non-existent threat from a non-existent country (the
Soviet Union), has practically achieved its goal of reaching the Black
Sea.In its wake, a new
“Iron Curtain” has descended upon Europe (see the map).

No
wonder the American
president, who said during his 2000 election campaign that he would pull
the U.S. troops out of the Balkans, has done a turn-about-face.By doing so, George W. Bush proved that the interests of American
oil and other multinational companies come first, that of the American
public - a distant second.

Bush
pushed the U.S. deeper into the Balkans quagmire in late June when her
ordered some 80 American G.I.’s in to rescue about 320 Albanian
terrorists from Aracinovo, a small town only six miles northeast of
Skopje, Macedonia’s capital.The
U.S. troops marshaled 15 buses, 3 trucks, 3 ambulances and 16 Humvees
for an operation in which the Albanian rebels were whisked off to safety
of the NATO-occupied Kosovo (see the map).

The
news of the American G.I.’s coming to the aid of Albanian terrorists
spawned a huge riot in Skopje, during which the Macedonian Parliament
was occupied by some of the over 5,000 angry citizens for several hours.Protesters fired guns in the air and shouted anti-western slogans
during the night of June 25-26.

The
June 26 New York Times edition carried a front page photo of the
Macedonian troops trying to prevent some citizens of the Umin Dol
village from attacking the 101st Airborne Division G.I.’s who were
rescuing the Aracinovo Albanian rebels.Outside the capital, an American diplomat was slightly wounded,
apparently accidentally, by the Macedonian army soldiers.

Several
other anti-western protests erupted in Skopje during the month of July,
usually after new acts of terrorism by the Albanian insurgents.The targets of the local Slavic populace’s wrath were
American, German and British embassies, as well as a local McDonald’s
restaurant and an OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe) car.

Macedonian government spokesman, Antonio Milososki,
called NATO in a July 23 news conference “a big friend of our
enemies.”The truth could
not have been spoken any more plainly.No wonder the State Department
ordered all of its non-essential embassy employees to leave Skopje.

It is especially ironic that the U.S. troops were sent
to rescue Albanian rebels less than a week after George W. Bush and his
senior foreign affairs officials declared that they did NOT want the
U.S. troops involved in any NATO operations that were to follow an
eventual ceasefire.Estimated at about 3,500, this NATO “peacekeeping”
contingent is likely to be led by the British, whose government has
agreed to deploy in Macedonia some 3,000 of its troops.(No, regrettably British Petroleum isn’t paying for them,
although it probably should be since they serve its interests).

Using American soldiers to save Albanian terrorists was
evidently deemed by the White House and the Pentagon a legitimate
mission.Why?Because birds of a feather flock together.Albanian insurgents in Macedonia were fighting a Washington
fight, just as they were three years ago in Kosovo (see “Kosovo:
Bosnia II, Serbia’s Aztlan, Chechnya”, Mar. 6, 1998 - http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins/tim98-3-1.html).No wonder a top NATO official in Macedonia (Daniel Speckhard)
defensively told the New York Times that the late June U.S. action was
“a one-time offer (to save the rebels) aimed at bolstering peace.”

Really?If
so, why did NATO, the Albanian terrorists’ air wing in Kosovo, and a
bus company in Macedonia, let the terrorist leave with their weapons,
rather than disarm them first?

Details, details… The NATO “lie and deny”
spokespeople have never been very big on details or logic, as those who
have followed the TiM reports during the 1999 bombing of Serbia know
very well (see http://www.truthinmedia.org/Kosovo/war-peace.html).Fortunately, they fooled only the ignorant or the gullible.Here’s, for example, what Colonel David Hackworth, America’s
most decorated living soldier, said about the U.S. Aracinovo escapade in
his July 10 column:

“This
operation didn't pass the smell test for me. I couldn't stop asking
myself why NATO brass would risk the lives of 80 American paratroopers
to save a band of heavily armed cutthroats bent on overthrowing the
established government of a country that our president and State
Department have repeatedly stated they are committed to save.

The
act was kind of like an FBI SWAT team rescuing Timothy McVeigh minutes
before the execution. My first thought was, Whose side are we really on?
My second was, What's the objective here -- stabilizing or destabilizing
Macedonia?

The
UCK (an acronym for
the Kosovo Liberation Army) brigade -- dug
in around Aracinovo, four miles north of Skopje, the capital of
Macedonia -- had been surrounded for two weeks, under heavy attack by
Macedonian government forces and on the verge of destruction. Imagine
how we'd feel if one of our units was about to take out a rebel brigade
whose objective was to overthrow our government, when out of nowhere a
Canadian paratroop company swooped in and saved the enemy force?

Of
course, the Macedonians were fit to be tied.

Sources
in the U.S. Army in Kosovo familiar with the 3/502nd Airborne
Battalion's rescue operation confirm that the mission was all about
saving the "17 'instructors' among the withdrawing rebels -- former
U.S. officers, who were providing the rebels with continued military
education. But that was not enough: The Macedonian security forces claim
that 70 percent of the equipment taken away by the guerrillas had been
U.S. made -- to include even the most modern third-generation night
vision devices," as reported by the German newspaper Hamburger
Abendblatt on June 28.

Other
sources say the "17 instructors" were members of a high-ticket
Rent-a-Soldier outfit called MPRI -- Military Professional Resources
Incorporated -- that operates in the shadow of the Pentagon and has been
hired by the CIA and our State Department for ops in ex-Yugoslavia. The
company, headed up by former U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Carl E. Vuono,
is filled with former U.S. Army personnel, from generals to senior
sergeants, all of whom draw handsome wages on top of their Army retired
salaries.

This
is the same outfit that in the early 1990s trained Croatian soldiers for
Operation Storm -- which resulted in the brutal ethnic cleansing of
200,000 unarmed Serb civilians -- as well as bringing Croatian Gen. Agim
Ceku up to speed. Ceku, who played a central role in the slaughter, is
alleged to have killed thousands of other Serb civilians before joining
the KLA in 1999, where he again received training and assistance from
CIA andState Department contractors operating overtly and covertly
throughout ex-Yugoslavia and around the globe.”

Naturally, actions like this make Hackworth and other
honorable American veterans furious.One still-serving three-war vet, for example, told Hackworth:
“A number of contractors have been pitching me to work for them after
I retire. I said no. There's no principles, no love of country, no honor
-- just MONEY. I can't ... sell my soul for a buck.”

“There are laws on the books that prevent American
citizens from serving foreign governments,” Hackworth railed.“It's about time Congress did its duty and enforced them.”

True.But
“who will guard the guards themselves?” (Juvenal, a.d. 60-130). What
if the American government, including Congress, is in service of the
multinational Princes?

Frankfurter Rundschau, a respected German paper,
virtually said that in its July 9 report on Macedonia.Quoting Andreas Buro, a political analyst and a
representative of the Committee for Basic Rights and Democracy,
the German daily said that, “the
West has never seriously followed a policy of conflict-prevention in
Macedonia, at least partly because the United States wants to increase
its influence in that part of the world.”

“The United
States wants a reason to beef up its military and political influence in
the Balkans,” Buro said.He
cited the huge U.S. base (Bondsteel) near Pristina, Kosovo, one of the
largest in the world, from which “the U.S. forces can oversee
transport routes and pipelines.”

To support his
claim, Buro cited a letter from Willi Wimmer, a security expert from
Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union party. Wimmer sent the
letter, which has received relatively little public notice, to German
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder after a meeting of heads of state, foreign
ministers and defense ministers in Bratislava, Slovakia, in early May.The United States, he wrote, wants to correct an oversight from
the World War II era, and station U.S. military forces in the (Balkans)
area for strategic reasons.

This writer first pointed out in November 1995, right
after the Dayton accords that ended the Bosnian war were signed, that
the “Green Interstate” (see http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins/tim95-11.html),
an Islamic demographic “highway” from Bihac (Bosnia) to Istanbul,
represents a confluence of NATO and Islamic interests.And I predicted that next conflagration point after Bosnia would
be Kosovo, followed by Macedonia.

This also helped explain why the former U.S. president,
George Bush Sr., announced in December 1992 (see http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2000/tim2000-7-5.html
), after he had already lost the election, that he would send the U.S. troops
to this yet-to-be-formed “country.”And why Bush Jr. is now following in his Dad’s and Bill
Clinton’s footsteps.Because
they are all puppets controlled by the same puppeteers - the global
multinational Princes.

The fact that Bush Jr. chose a defense contractor and an
oil company executive (Dick Cheney, who also served as Secretary of
Defense in Bush St.’s government) for his vice president and overseer
of national security, speaks volumes about which side an American
president’s bread is buttered on (see “Weep Mankind,” this
writer’s July 2000 article on that topic - http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2000/tim2000-7-5.html).Of course, George Bush Sr. was himself a former oil company
executive when he wasn’t in government service, doing virtually the
same job.

It is worthy of note that Macedonia was being hailed in
the mid-1990s by the New World Order globalist elite as a model
multicultural country.George
Soros, for example, publicly praised Macedonia and often met with its
former president Kiro Gligorov, who narrowly survived an assassination
attempt in September 1995.By that stage, some 500 American troops had been showing the
flag in this former Yugoslav republic for over two years.

The Frankfurter
Rundschau report also said that the British and U.S. military advisors
have been training members of the ethnic Albanian rebels from the
National Liberation Army (NLA).One
of the Western goals was to prevent Russia from establishing a presence
in the Balkans, Buro said.But
for Macedonia and the Balkans themselves, a Russian involvement could be
important.Or that of Russia’s friends, such as the Ukraine.

Which is why the
Bush administration is evidently trying to stop it.While publicly proclaiming its support for the Macedonian
government, the National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, said during
her visit to Kiev on July 25, that she had received assurances from the
Ukraine government that it would no longer sell arms to Macedonia.Between May and July, the Ukraine had reportedly sent to
Macedonia two Sukhoi-25 fighter jets, six Mi-24 attack helicopters, and
four Mi-8 military transport helicopters, according to a July 26 Tanjug
news agency report.

But many Macedonians aren’t falling for it as evident
by the almost daily anti-American protests in Skopje these days.That’s because many Macedonians have seen or heard firsthand
reports of the American support of the Albanian insurgents.Here’s, for example, our translation of a message the Truth
in Media received on July 24 from a Macedonian whose identity is known
to us, but whose name is being withheld for his own security:

“The
last two days have been terrible.The
Shiptars (Albanians) have taken half of Tetovo (a town northwest of
Skopje - see the map), and 80% of villages around Tetovo.There are quite a few dead and wounded civilians who are being
driven from their homes… About the West, (I wish to say) only one
thing.Two days ago, in full view of our army, they had dropped off
to them (the Albanian rebels) two containers full of weapons.The next day, they attacked Tetovo.Is there anything more left to say?”

If still in doubt about the real reason for
Washington’s support of the Albanians (oil), take a look at the above map,
or at
the map at the start of this article.Note
that the flashpoints of the latest Albanian insurgency lie north and
northeast of Skopje.In
other words, trouble spots are AWAY from the areas in which the
Albanians are ethnically dominant.But they do lie along the route of the future oil corridor - the “Green
Interstate,” as we put it.

So
much for the Albanian rebels having anything to do with “liberation”
or “secession” of the 23% Albanian minority from Macedonia.Like their KLA predecessors in Kosovo from which many of the
fighters come, they are mercenaries of the New World Order.

So what does this tell us about “Dubya,” the current
American president, and his foreign policy team?

(1) The best way of fighting international terrorism is
to save the terrorists so they can fight for us another day.Except for domestic terrorists, of course (McVeigh, Waco
women and children; Ruby Ridge “rebels”…), who must be killed to
set an example for other Americans who may be unhappy with the NWO’s
usurpation of the U.S. government.

(2) Words are cheap.Dubya’s actions speak louder than words.

(3) Any difference between the Dubya and Bill Clinton
foreign policy is purely accidental.No similarities are.

No wonder Bush’s approval rating back home has now
dropped to 50%, the lowest level for a sitting president in five years.What the American public seems to be saying is: Clinton was
bad, but a Clinton look-alike is worse.

NATO to Use Yugoslav
Military Bases?

Dubya’s approval ratings would probably sink even
lower if the American media were to carry one of the more bizarre
Balkans news items that emerged in the last few days.Two years ago after trying to bomb a defiant Yugoslavia into the
stone age, NATO officials are asking that country’s government for
permission to use the Serb military bases, according to an Aug. 5 report
by the London Sunday Times (http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/08/05/stifgneur01004.html
).

The reason?The
NATO “supermen” seem to have miscalculated a little when they
started the Macedonian war.An
all-out war in Macedonia would cut off the Thessalonika-Kosovo supply
route, a vital lifeline for some 40,000+ NATO troops in Kosovo.

So NATO officials, hat in hand and checkbook in pocket,
are now talking with Yugoslav government officials about supplying their
Kosovo troops through Serbia (from Hungary, a NATO country).The alliance would need to send up to
80 trucks a day through Yugoslavia, with stop-offs at Yugoslav Army
bases in Novi Sad in the north, and in Nis in the south.

“There are 40,000 guys in
Kosovo - and they need feeding, water, tents, whatever. We've got to
look at the alternatives,” a NATO planner told the Times.He admitted that the options of going through the Montenegrin
mountains, or the bandit-infested north of Albania, had been ruled out.Planners have calculated it would take a year to build a
suitable road through Kukes in northern Albania.

A source close to recent talks
in Belgrade between the five leading NATO countries and Yugoslavia, said
the U.S., which is heading the negotiations, wants relations between the
Pentagon and Belgrade to get back to where they were before Slobodan
Milosevic came to power in 1987.Among
other things, this means that Yugoslav officers would be sent to West
Point and Fort Lauderdale for training.

Details of a NATO supply line
through Serbia were discussed at an early August meeting in Germany
between American officers, the Yugoslav foreign minister, Goran
Svilanovic, and the Serbian deputy prime minister, Nebojsa Covic, the
Times also said.

Given the current Yugoslav
government’s subservient attitude toward Washington, Serbia may become
a de facto NATO country even before some of the current Balkans
frontrunners make it (Slovenia, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria…).

So is that bad?Not
if NATO pays up.And what
would be a fair price?How
about $30 billion and counting, roughly the amount of unconditional war
reparations that the Yugoslav government should have, but did not,
demand before becoming a western vassal.Instead, Belgrade sold out its sovereignty and its honor by
shipping Milosevic to the Hague kangaroo court for a mere promise of
$1.3 billion, of which it has received one fat zero so far.

Which is why the Serb prime minister, Zoran Djindjic,
who orchestrated the Milosevic handover, railed against western
treachery during a mid-July visit to Germany.“When I was in the opposition, the European Union promised us three
million marks (about $1.4 billion) in cash for Milosevic,” he said in
an interview with the German Der Spiegel (Mirror) magazine.“Where is it?I am
seriously warning the West. If my government falls, that would cost the
international community $10 billion."

Only $10
billion?

Djindjic said
Belgrade had been expecting to receive a first installment of 300
hundred million euros ($255 million) by August, but had discovered that
225 million euros of that would go toward paying off old debts.... “I
am losing my credibility and cannot stabilize the country anymore.We didn't make any conditions for the handover. We wanted to show
our goodwill to integrate into the international community.”

“But I must
admit that I am shocked about the farce of the western aid which should
amount to $1.3 billion,” he said. “If we do not receive a financial
injection immediately, we will have demonstrations and unrest by
September at the latest.”

Maybe not if NATO pays up,
huh?After all, “first
you knock them down, then you build them up,” this writer wrote in
1995, in reference to the NWO/NATO occupation of Bosnia.That’s when I also pointed out that the real NWO mantra was
“perpetual war for perpetual commerce,” not “world peace through
world trade,” as the globalist leaders claim.

Guess the Yugoslav and
Macedonian leaders are only now getting around to realizing it?

SKOPJE, July 21 - Macedonian Ministry of the
Interior announced that a KFOR helicopter bearing British insignia flew
over the residences of President Boris Trajkovski and Prime Minister
Ljubcho Georgievski at the Vodno hillsides on three separate occasions
on July 19-20, the Macedonian MIA news agency reported on July 21.

Observers noted some “lightning balls” being ejected
from the helicopter. A
representative of KFOR was contacted about the matter, and he explained
that they were only performing their regular observatory maneuvers,
during which a security shield of the helicopter reacted to the presence
of certain radiation in that area.

For detailed investigation of these occurrences, the
Ministry of Interior requested that a commission to be established, to
be made up of representatives of KFOR, the EU Monitoring Mission, the
Ministry of Defense, and the Ministry of Interior. TiM
has received no further information about the formation of, or the
activities of, any such commission.

Regardless of the nature and the origin of these
“lightning balls,” the mere presence and spying of the British Big
Brother over the heads of state residences in a foreign country shows
that Macedonia is neither a free nor a sovereign country.And why should one be surprised?How can a country that has allowed unfettered access by NATO to
its territory during the Kosovo war call itself sovereign?

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3.
TiM Readers Forum

PHOENIX, Aug. 10
- Here are some of the letters we have received as TiM reader reactions
to our earlier stories:

IRELAND
- Let Our People Go!

DUBLIN, July 10 -
We received the following feedback from Joe Murphy, a TiM reader from
Ireland, who had been a vocal opponent of NATO’s bombing of Serbia in
1999:

“Thanks
for the news updates.We
had a vote here in Ireland on June 7.I voted against the establishment of an International Criminal
Court in the Hague, as I believed it would be selective and not
universal in its punishment of so called 'war criminals'.

I also
voted against the Treaty of Nice.This
was my revenge on the Gang of 15 (the EU) for its bombing of the Serbian
people in 1999.Ireland
sank the Treaty of Nice.We
want no part of the Rapid Reaction Force which is ready to start a war
in Macedonia, in support of the Turkish invaders.

If it
is true that Americans are inside Macedonia supporting Muslim
terrorists, it would be a nice gesture if people who support the right
of the Orthodox Christian people to live in peace on their own land,
form an voluntary International Brigade to render military assistance to
drive the Muslim terrorists from Kosovo and Macedonia.Macedonia should not be allowed to fall to the Turks.

In the
17th Century, King Jan Sobieski led a consortium of nations to defeat
the Turks at the Battle of Vienna. Now, the European nations are in the
process of creating a pan-Albanian state.What warped logic, what a sellout of European ideals!

To
allow Islam a foothold in the Balkans is a most dangerous situation,
what country will be theirnext
target?Already, Muslims are rioting on the streets of England,
shouting Allah Akhbar (God is great).Is this the war cry of the future?I hope not.

Meanwhile
innocent Orthodox people and the Irish are being murdered in their
historic homelands as they have been for hundreds of years.Let our people go!Best
regards,”

Joe
Murphy, Ireland

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OHIO
-
Truth Can Help Free People from Tyrants

OHIO, Aug. 2 -
We received the following feedback from Hugh Monroe, a TiM reader and a
retired professor from Ohio:

“I
just came across your site.Good
work.The truth -- if
widely enough available -- can help people to free themselves from
tyrants, whether political or mercantile.

In
reading your essay on the NWO (see http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins99/tim99-11-4.html
), I noticed you took the idea back to N. Machiavelli.You might also recall the progenitor of fascism and Nazism (for a
good cause of course: justice) -- Plato.The Republic was an early (the first?) attempt to design a State
that would impose conformity as a means to social justice: have the
philosopher-King -- who had the only almost-full access to the Truth --
guide the men of silver, bronze, etc. as they kept the men of clay on
the straight-and-narrow.

Good
thing P's (philosophy) student, Aristotle, saw the fallacies in such
thinking, and good thing that the Founders of this Republic (USA) were
not superficially grounded in the political philosophy and experiments
of the past.

Hugh
Munro, Ohio

P.S.
Decided to do a search on 'truth' and turned up your site (along with
Truth-In-Justice ... and a bunch of perfume (!?) marketing.I am so weary of the lies, lies, and more lies in the media, and
in marketing, and in government (did I leave anybody out?).These bozos think that if they 'bend' the facts ... just a little
... then it's not really lying.Wrong!I think good citizens who raise their children to tell the truth
use essentially the forensic (courtroom) standard -- 'the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth.'And we are not talking Platonic (transcendent, absolute)
capital-T truth here, but Aristotelian, human, shades-of-gray truth.Or, as he said, "we must not make people believe what we
know to be wrong."The
courtroom standard simply means -- the truth as we know it, the entire
truth (nothing important left out), and nothing essential left out.Not a bad standard, methinks.

OKLAHOMA
- U.S. Policy-makers Should Be Sent to the Hague for Crimes against
Humanity

“Global
Supply Side Economics continues to be a dismal failure worldwide as the
U.S., Russia, Japan, EC, and some Southern countries fight off sagging
economies bordering on deflation.

In the
U.S., we have seen the impact political perception has had on the economy
when coupled with rising interest rates resulting in sagging sales,
declining raw material prices, and massive layoffs. Supply exceeds
consumption in nearly all cases. Americans seeing both parties and
candidates hell bent to legitimatize trade relations with China, allow
fast track international deals, more Nafta-â€™s, a UN kicking the
U.S. out of more and more committees but begging us to pay our dues,
committing U.S. troops to NATO, New World Order, and more couldn't decide
who to elect as President and really didn't like either choice.

The
China Deal has been estimated to create one million jobs in the U.S., but
will destroy nearly five million domestic American jobs.This is another one of those cases where any export job is good is
not true.

Basically
Americans did not, by late April of 2000, see a candidate worthy of
confidence. The American perception of the future was not good. Americans
did not feel either candidate or party represented the country or the
people and began to cut back on spending resulting in a spiraling downturn
in economic activity in the U.S. and globally. Layoffs cause reduced
spending and sales, and more layoffs.

Declining
interest rates and tax cuts hold promise of restoring economic growth at
least for a while but like Japan where interest rates are near 0,
unemployment and deflation or depression still remain the threat. And now,
“Mr. Greenspam” is talking of retiring (while he is ahead??).

(Neither)
monetary confidence, nor fiscal stimulus, can stimulate an economy which
has lost confidence in its political leaders’ will to preserve and
protect their own people. Destruction of some degree of economic
assuredness in the U.S. and Japan, as well as other countries utilizing
erroneous supply side theory , has resulted in the spiraling adverse
impacts we are seeing today with businesses cutting back, laying off and
or failing.

Some
will say this view is in error however what they will not admit is that
real economic growth and prosperity as measured by sustainable long term
profitability, improving sales, higher standards of living would have been
possible with a more balanced and less radical program.

Global
Supply Side Economics required in theory and thus reality that the U.S.
lower wages and consolidate corporations to the point that the Middle
Income has been destroyed and Lower Incomes have become even lower.

Bankruptcy
and debt continue at record levels, proving that trickle

it could
be fatal.. I believe that it has been the greatest failure.We believed there would in fact be backlashes from the American
People who should UNITE NOW to preserve and protect the United States, its
people, freedoms, Constitution, and Bill of Rights from the tyranny of the
radical right wing supply side global fascists of both parties that have
controlled politics and business the past twenty five years.

Americans
are also increasingly becoming victims of genocidal policies in the name
of saving a few dollars of cost by American businesses or the choice made
by both parties in Congress and the Administration to limit tax dollar
expenditures for the benefit of their citizenry so more tax dollars are
available for their elections and personal programs.

Americans
are expendable under the current policy decisions to the point that people
die as routine matter for the lack of health insurance and as a result
medical coverage and treatment. It would seem that health insurance should
not be a benefit of employment any longer with the wide spread abuse by
insurers and employers.

The
abuses center around :

- the
increasing amount of premiums and reduction in benefits,

- the
average life of an employer healthcare program is 18 months with
preexisting conditions exclusions up to 12 months depending on state,

-
development of new personal plans for healthy excluding sick people whose
old policy premiums are raised until they can no longer afford to pay for
the coverage and have to drop it.

As a
result Americans have been dying from these planned Government/Business
Policies and Programs. These
policy makers and perpetuators should be rounded up and sent to Hague for
crimes against humanity, and their accumulated personal, family, and trust
assets nationalized.”

Thomas
Kip Walls, Oklahoma

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SERBIA
- What Were We Bombed For?

BELGRADE, Aug. 11 -
We received the following feedback from Radmilo Savic, a TiM reader from
Serbia:

Dear
TIM,

A
few days ago, we (in Belgrade) have been informed, through several TV
channels, that former president (Slobodan) Milosevic will be charged
(before the Hague tribunal) for crimes against humanity and civilian
victims and ethnic cleansing intentions - in the wars in Bosnia and
Croatia (Krajina), but NOT (!) for Kosovo genocide and ethnic cleansing.The reason?Because
there is not enough proof (evidence) for it against him or Yugoslavia
(whose president he was)!? (according to a Hague spokesman’s comment to
foreign news media).

Then,
there is the question I have for any American citizen, and for any citizen
of any NATO country which participated in the Kosovo war :

AMSTERDAM, Aug. 10 - Witnesses said two British
military jeeps and two civilian vehicles approached Col. Vidoje
Blagojevic’s car as he arrived for a meeting with NATO officials in
Bosnia, according to an Aug. 10 Associated Press story.The British assailants pulled Col Blagojevic out of his car and
sped away.At the time of his
abduction, Col. Blagojevic was still active as commander of the
engineering units of the Bosnian Serb Army, and thus coming to attend the
international meeting in an official capacity.

Eight hours later, Col. Blagojevic arrived at the U.N.
prison at the Hague, the site of the U.N. war crimes tribunal for
Yugoslavia to face charges of “genocide” for the alleged Srebrenica
massacre, based on a secret indictment.Western media parroted the NATO/SFOR storyline calling this
abduction an “arrest.”

The Associated Press, for example, quoted a NATO statement which said that, “the arrest was another step in its drive
to arrest the remaining war crime indictees, and reflects NATO's
commitment to bringing to justice those who perpetrated war crimes and
atrocities.”

Now, wait a
minute… maybe such an abduction, based on a secret indictment, would
pass the muster as an “arrest” in a Nazi- or Bolshevik-type of
judicial system. But can you
imaging any arrest here in the United States, no matter what the charges,
standing up in court after a defendant had been apprehended in such a
deceitful and brutal manner?Of
course, not.

Yet, "there
will be no hiding place for anyone accused by the ICTY of these horrific
crimes,” NATO spouted off in its statement. “Let today's arrest serve
as a warning to those with guilty consciences: there is no escape, turn
yourself in," according to the AP story.

The tribunal
convicted its first genocide suspect just over a week ago, finding Gen.
Radislav Krstic guilty of the Srebrenica massacre in July 1995. Krstic
was sentenced to 46 years in prison.Blagojevic commanded troops in the Drina Corps, which operated
under Gen. Krstic's command, the secret indictment said.

PHOENIX, Aug. 14 - When the Kosovo war ended in
June of 1999 with a “peace agreement” signed by the Yugoslav Army and
NATO in Kumanovo (Macedonia), we said what the western officials and the
media hailed as a “peace process,” would turn into a “peace
farce” (see http://www.truthinmedia.org/Kosovo/tim-peace.html
).It did.In the wake of such a “peace” deal, more than 1,200
Kosovo Serbs were murdered by Albanians, and over 250,000 driven from
their ancestral homes.

With yesterday’s signing of the Macedonian “peace
accords” in Skopje, another Peace Farce is in the making.Even before the ink was dry on the new “peace” documents,
artillery fire could be heard north of Skopje, the New York Times reported
in today’s (Aug. 14) edition.And
in the days preceding the signing ceremony, a new assault against
Macedonia was launched from the NATO-occupied Kosovo by the Albanian
rebels, while the KFOR border troops evidently looked the other way.“Kosovo Troops Openly Attack Macedonia,” read the headline of
the Aug. 11 Macedonian Information Agency dispatch.

We find it interesting that no major American media we are
aware of bothered to carry this news story.And for a good reason… For, it would have once again exposed the
duplicitous role the U.S. government and NATO have played in the
Macedonian conflict, as in Bosnia and Kosovo a few years earlier.

Kosovo Troops Openly Attack Macedonia

SKOPJE,
Aug. 11 (MIA) - Just before 16:00 Saturday afternoon, hundreds of members
of the Kosovo Protection Corps [TiM
Ed.: A NATO-created “police” force into which the murderous Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA) morphed in late 1999], came
from Krivenik, Kosovo into Derventska Klisura (Dervent's Canyon), (and)
fiercely attacked the Macedonian security forces in the Radusha area.

Sources
from the Macedonian Defense Ministry stated for MIA that the Macedonian
Army most vigorously responded and took an offensive against the Albanian
terrorists in Radusha.

One
thing is not clear (to MIA): If NATO troops were supposed to protect the
Macedonia–Kosovo border, how and why is possible for the Kosovo troops
to cross the border and openly attack Macedonia?

(MIA) Editors comment: It is well known that, or if you prefer (it is) a public
secret, that the Kosovars (Kosovo Albanians) were actively participating
and helping the terrorists in performing the crimes against humanity,
torturing the Macedonian and the local Albanian civilians, smuggling
drugs, weapons, and all other criminal activities against Macedonia.

With
a lot of help from the Albanians in the Macedonian government, Macedonia
was an El Dorado, a promised gangland for these people.

When
will the International public admit that the “pour Albanian people”
that the whole world was defending, now are the same criminals, the same
murderers wanted internationally for crimes, are now attacking Macedonia!

Our
only fault was that we were blind and naïve to see, that while we the
Macedonians, were making efforts to help the “poor refugees from
Kosovo”, making efforts to create a multiethnic community, the Albanians
were preparing for WAR!

Meanwhile, NATO
Secretary-General Lord Robertson attended the Aug. 13 signing ceremony in
Skopje which paved the way for the deployment of some 3,500 NATO troops in
Macedonia.Robertson said
that he hoped the alliance could move "very swiftly indeed" on
launching the mission, according to an Aug. 13 Associated Press report.

Robertson and European Union envoy Javier Solana, the NATO
civilian boss during the 1999 bombing of Serbia, watched as Macedonia’s
president Boris Trajkovski and the leaders of the four largest parties,
two ethnic Albanian and two Macedonian, signed the accord. The two
mediators - Francois Leotard of France and James Pardew of the United
States - also signed the 15-page document at Trajkovski's residence.

The British-led mission, dubbed Operation Essential
Harvest, would also include troops from the United States, France,
Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Turkey, Hungary
and the Czech Republic.

Robertson called the signing “a remarkable moment for
the history of Macedonia. This day marks the entry of Macedonia into
modern, mainstream Europe,” the AP said.

Translation… it pushes Macedonia deeper into financial
and political slavery to the New World Order masters.